![]() ![]() Snippets of poems and songs also appear sporadically. Each scene is based on historical fact, but Galeano fictionalizes the history by adding dialogue, interior monologue, bits of folklore and myth, and poetic description. These vignettes are arranged in chronological order but don’t necessarily lead sequentially from one to another in the way chapters of a novel do. The book consists of hundreds of brief historical scenes, each only a page or two in length. Though Genesis is certainly historical fiction, it isn’t quite a novel, but rather its own unique form of fiction. It is the first book in Galeano’s trilogy Memory of Fire ( Memoria del fuego), in which he chronicles the history of the Americas. Genesis, a book by Uruguayan novelist and journalist Eduardo Galeano, was originally published in 1982 under the Spanish title Los nacimientos. ![]()
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